The US Army designated Bell's V-280 Valor as its next-generation air assault vehicle, the MV-75. The tiltrotor is part of the Army's plan to modernize its aging fleet of military helicopters. The Army ...
The V-280 Valor tiltrotor demonstrator, photographed in 2021. The tiltrotor has been cleared to enter its initial manufacturing phase. (Bell Helicopter) The US Army has approved the Bell V-280 Valor ...
Helicopters are incredible machines with amazing capabilities that fixed-wing aircraft do not have. In spite of this, however, helicopters also have limitations — most notably, the maximum speed they ...
Bell’s V-280 Valor advanced tiltrotor has reached 250 kt. airspeed as it continues to make progress under the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstration (JMR TD), the precursor to the ...
WASHINGTON — Textron’s Bell tapped GE Aerospace to develop a host of digital systems for its much-anticipated Black Hawk utility helicopter successor. The arrangement, announced Sept. 7, will see GE ...
Bell Flight (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.) released a series of announcements in August regarding developments of the highly composite V-280 Valor, a future vertical lift (FVL) tiltrotor aircraft ...
Bell Textron Inc., already one the largest employers in the Metroplex, has chosen its hometown of Fort Worth to build components for the next generation of military assault helicopters. The news, ...